Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Acting • Born 1899-04-25 – Died 1962-06-06
Biography
From Wikipedia Guinn Terrell Williams Jr. (April 26, 1899 – June 6, 1962) was an American actor who appeared in memorable westerns such as Dodge City (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and The Comancheros (1961). He was nicknamed "Big Boy" as he was 6' 2" and had a muscular build from years of working on ranches and playing semi-pro and professional baseball. Williams made his screen debut in the 1919 comedy, Almost A Husband, with Will Rogers and Cullen Landis, and was featured in a large supporting role ten years later in Frank Borzage's Lucky Star with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Throughout the 1920s Williams would have a string of successful films, mostly westerns. He then appeared in The Great Meadow alongside Johnny Mack Brown, which was Brown's breakout film. Throughout the 1930s, Williams acted in supporting roles, mostly in westerns, sports, or outdoor dramas. Although not the lead actor in any of them, he was always employed, and was successful as a supporting actor. He often played alongside Hoot Gibson and Harry Carey during that period. In 1941, he became one of many actors cast by Universal Pictures in their large film series, Riders of Death Valley. From the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, Williams appeared in supporting roles in a number of A-pictures, sometimes with high billing, such as You Only Live Once, and in Columbia's first Technicolour film The Desperadoes (1943). Williams was frequently teamed with Alan Hale, Sr. as sidekicks to Errol Flynn in several of his pictures. In 1960, he was cast in the epic film The Alamo and in Home from the Hill with Robert Mitchum. His last role was opposite his close friend John Wayne and Stuart Whitman in The Comancheros.
Filmography
220 credits
Santa Fe Trail
Movie • 1940
Windy Brody
American Empire
Movie • 1942
Sailaway
Mr. Wise Guy
Movie • 1942
Luke Manning
A Star Is Born
Movie • 1937
Posture Coach
Castle on the Hudson
Movie • 1940
Mike Cagle
Fugitive at Large
Movie • 1939
Conway (as Guinn Williams)
You'll Never Get Rich
Movie • 1941
Kewpie Blain
Jubilo
Movie • 1919
Man Shooting Pool with Bert (uncredited)
Rose of the Desert
Movie • 1925
Cowboy (as Big Boy Williams)
Fangs of Wolfheart
Movie • 1925
Bad Man from Bodie
Movie • 1925
The Big Stunt
Movie • 1925
Courage of Wolfheart
Movie • 1925
The Glass Key
Movie • 1935
Jeff
Station West
Movie • 1948
Mick Marion
Man in the Saddle
Movie • 1951
Bourke Prine
The Littlest Rebel
Movie • 1935
Sgt. Dudley
Swamp Water
Movie • 1941
Bud Dorson
Belle of the Yukon
Movie • 1944
Sheriff Mervin Maitland
Rocky Mountain
Movie • 1950
Pap Dennison (CSA)
Dodge City
Movie • 1939
Tex Baird
Cowboy and the Senorita
Movie • 1944
'Teddy' Bear
Road to the Big House
Movie • 1947
Butch McQuinn
You Only Live Once
Movie • 1937
Rogers
Big City
Movie • 1937
Danny Devlin
Hands Across the Border
Movie • 1944
Teddy Bear
Hangman's Knot
Movie • 1952
Smitty
Minesweeper
Movie • 1943
CPO Ichabod Ferdinand 'Fixit' Smith
The Woman Who Did Not Care
Movie • 1927
Lars
Man from Del Rio
Movie • 1956
Fred Jasper
Flirtation Walk
Movie • 1934
Sleepy
Beggars of Life
Movie • 1928
Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
Brown of Harvard
Movie • 1926
Hal Walter
Lucky Star
Movie • 1929
Martin Wrenn
Noah's Ark
Movie • 1928
Al Wilson / Ham
Private Worlds
Movie • 1935
Jerry Stone
Blackmail
Movie • 1939
Moose McCarthy
Rafter Romance
Movie • 1933
Fritzie
Springfield Rifle
Movie • 1952
Sgt. Snow
Billy the Kid
Movie • 1941
Ed Bronson (blacksmith)
Kelly the Second
Movie • 1936
Cecil Joseph Callahan
Slide, Kelly, Slide
Movie • 1927
McLean
Al Jennings of Oklahoma
Movie • 1951
Lon Tuttle
The Phantom
Movie • 1931
Dick Mallory
Big Boy Rides Again
Movie • 1935
Tom Duncan
Heritage of the Desert
Movie • 1932
Lefty
The Ropin' Fool
Movie • 1922
The Foreman
The Mystery Squadron
Movie • 1933
Bill 'Jellybean' Cook
You and Me
Movie • 1938
Taxi
The Hired Gun
Movie • 1957
Elby Kirby
Wise Girl
Movie • 1937
Mike
Miss Pacific Fleet
Movie • 1935
Nicholas 'Nick', Annie's Boyfriend
College Coach
Movie • 1933
Matthews
The Black Cyclone
Movie • 1925
Jim Lawson
Man of the Forest
Movie • 1933
Big Boy
Song of the Prairie
Movie • 1945
Big Boy Jackson
The Law of 45's
Movie • 1935
Tucson Two-Gun Smith
Army Girl
Movie • 1938
Ross
Polly of the Circus
Movie • 1932
Eric
Cowboy Holiday
Movie • 1934
Buck Sawyer
Grand Jury
Movie • 1936
Joseph Britt
The Vigilantes Are Coming
Movie • 1936
Salvation
Thunder Over Texas
Movie • 1934
Ted Wright
The Man Who Walked Alone
Movie • 1945
Champ
The Big Game
Movie • 1936
Pete Jenkins
The Bachelor Father
Movie • 1931
Dick Berney
Dangerous Holiday
Movie • 1937
Duke Edwards
Bad Lands
Movie • 1939
Billy Sweet
Flying Fists
Movie • 1937
Slug Cassidy
Money and the Woman
Movie • 1940
Mr. Adle
One in a Million
Movie • 1935
Spike McGafferty
The Silver Streak
Movie • 1934
Higgins
Gun Play
Movie • 1935
Bill Williams
Hold That Co-ed
Movie • 1938
Mike Wurgerski
The Great Meadow
Movie • 1931
Rubin Hall
Drifting Souls
Movie • 1932
Bing
Running Hollywood
Movie • 1932
Scratchface Henchman
Laughing at Life
Movie • 1933
Jones
Cheaters
Movie • 1934
Detective Sweeney
Love on a Bet
Movie • 1936
Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
Muss 'em Up
Movie • 1936
'Red' Cable
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Movie • 1941
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Buttons and Her Beaus
Movie • 1962
Fremont: The Trailblazer
Movie • 1956
Cassidy
Village Tale
Movie • 1935
Ben Roberts
Cyclone Jones
Movie • 1923
Cyclone Jones
Uncensored Movies
Movie • 1923
The Avenger
Movie • 1924
Nat Sherwood
Riders at Night
Movie • 1923
End of the Rope
Movie • 1923
$1,000 Reward
Movie • 1923
Red Blood and Blue
Movie • 1925
Tom Butler
Sporting West
Movie • 1925
Whistling Jim
Movie • 1925
Whistling Jim
Riders of the Sand Storm
Movie • 1925
The Cowboy
The Devil Is Driving
Movie • 1932
Mac
Quarantined Rivals
Movie • 1927
Joe, the plumber
Backstage
Movie • 1927
Mike Donovan
Almost a Husband
Movie • 1919
The Down Grade
Movie • 1927
Ed Holden
City Girl
Movie • 1930
Reaper
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Movie • 1928
Sweeney
College Lovers
Movie • 1930
Tiny Courtley
The Big Fight
Movie • 1930
Tiger
Brimstone
Movie • 1949
Art Benson
Five Bold Women
Movie • 1960
'Big Foot' - the wagon driver
Southwest Passage
Movie • 1954
Tall Tale
Crashing Through Danger
Movie • 1938
Slim
Massacre Canyon
Movie • 1954
Pvt. Archibald Allen
Nevada
Movie • 1944
Dusty
The Forward Pass
Movie • 1929
Honey Smith
6,000 Enemies
Movie • 1939
Maxie
Everybody's Doing It
Movie • 1938
'Softy' Blane
The Bad Man of Brimstone
Movie • 1937
Vulch McCreedy
She's No Lady
Movie • 1937
Jeff
My Dear Miss Aldrich
Movie • 1937
An Attendant
Danger Trails
Movie • 1935
Bob Wilson
Cupid the Cowpuncher
Movie • 1920
Hairoil Johnson
The Singing Marine
Movie • 1937
Dopey
Here Comes the Navy
Movie • 1934
Dance-Floor Manager
Palooka
Movie • 1934
Slats (uncredited)
The Trail of Hate
Movie • 1922
Silent Kerry
The Fighting 69th
Movie • 1940
Paddy Dolan
The Alamo
Movie • 1960
Lt. 'Irish' Finn
Don't Tell the Wife
Movie • 1937
Lazarus "Cupid" Dougal
War Mamas
Movie • 1931
Doughboy
Catch-As Catch-Can
Movie • 1931
Strangler Sullivan
Swing in the Saddle
Movie • 1944
'Tiny' Baldwin
Alias the Deacon
Movie • 1940
Bull Gumbatz
Virginia City
Movie • 1940
Marblehead
You Said a Mouthful
Movie • 1932
Swimmer Joe Holt (uncredited)
That Texas Jamboree
Movie • 1946
Big Boy Frazer
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Movie • 1939
Blake - the First Mate
Professor Beware
Movie • 1938
Motorcycle Cop
The Undie-World
Movie • 1934
Bugsy McHugh
Pleased to Mitt You
Movie • 1940
Chuck Brenner
Hoedown
Movie • 1950
Small Potatoes
Smoky River Serenade
Movie • 1947
Wagon Wheel (as Big Boy Williams)
The Jack Rider
Movie • 1921
Frank Stevens
Wagons Westward
Movie • 1940
Jake Hardman
The Comancheros
Movie • 1961
Ed McBain - Gunrunner (uncredited)
Sing Me a Song of Texas
Movie • 1945
Big Boy
The Vengeance Trail
Movie • 1921
Big Boy Bronson
Western Firebrands
Movie • 1921
Billy Fargo
Across the Border
Movie • 1922
Andy Fowler
The Cowboy King
Movie • 1922
Dud Smiley
Rounding Up the Law
Movie • 1922
Larry Connell
Blaze Away
Movie • 1922
Big Boy
The Freshie
Movie • 1922
Charles Taylor
Remembrance
Movie • 1922
Country Fair
Movie • 1941
Gunther Potts
The Desperadoes
Movie • 1943
Nitro Rankin
Society Fever
Movie • 1935
Edgar Prouty
Home from the Hill
Movie • 1960
Hugh Macauley (uncredited)
Singing on the Trail
Movie • 1946
Big Boy Webster
The Outlaw's Daughter
Movie • 1954
Moose, Deputy
Throw a Saddle on a Star
Movie • 1946
Big Boy
Girls Can Play
Movie • 1937
Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan
Powdersmoke Range
Movie • 1935
Lullaby Joslin
North of Nome
Movie • 1936
Haage
End of the Trail
Movie • 1936
Bob Hildreth
Down in 'Arkansaw'
Movie • 1938
Juble Butler
The Bad Man
Movie • 1930
Red Giddings
Street of Missing Men
Movie • 1939
T-Bone
Riders of Death Valley
Movie • 1941
Borax Bill
Pardon Our Nerve
Movie • 1939
Samson Smith
Legion of Lost Flyers
Movie • 1939
Jake Halley
Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga
Movie • 1941
Alvin
Lure of the Islands
Movie • 1942
Jinx
Cowboy Canteen
Movie • 1944
Spud Harrigan
Between Us Girls
Movie • 1942
Father of the Boys
Wolfheart's Revenge
Movie • 1925
Jack Stanley
The Marines Are Here
Movie • 1938
Sgt. Gibbons
My Man
Movie • 1928
Joe Halsey
Smoky Mountain Melody
Movie • 1948
Saddle Grease Williams
Silver Queen
Movie • 1942
Blackie
Rhythm Round-Up
Movie • 1945
Zeke Winslow
Cowboy Blues
Movie • 1946
Big Boy Stover
King of the Wild Horses
Movie • 1947
Jed Acker (as Big Boy Williams)
Over the Santa Fe Trail
Movie • 1947
Big Boy Jackson
Bad Men of Tombstone
Movie • 1949
Red Fisk
Dulcy
Movie • 1940
Henry
Hidden Guns
Movie • 1956
Kingford
Career Woman
Movie • 1936
Bede Sanders
Ladies of the Jury
Movie • 1932
Steve Bromm (uncredited)
The Champ's a Chump
Movie • 1936
Spike
Godless Men
Movie • 1920
Seaman
From Headquarters
Movie • 1929
Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer
Liliom
Movie • 1930
Hollinger
The College Widow
Movie • 1927
Don White (as Big Boy Williams)
Vamping Venus
Movie • 1928
Mars
Snowbound
Movie • 1927
Bull Morgan
The Bugle Sounds
Movie • 1942
Sgt. Krims
70,000 Witnesses
Movie • 1932
Connors
Boys Will Be Boys
Movie • 1932
Butch
Romance in the Rain
Movie • 1934
Panya Mankiewicz
Half a Sinner
Movie • 1934
'Bull' Moran
Singin' in the Corn
Movie • 1946
Hank
Burning Daylight
Movie • 1928
English Harry (as Big Boy Williams)
The Eagle's Claw
Movie • 1924
Dan Carson
Stars on Horseback
Movie • 1943
I Demand Payment
Movie • 1938
Happy Crofton
The Desert's Toll
Movie • 1926
Henchman
The Phantom Broadcast
Movie • 1933
Sandy Higgins
Babe Comes Home
Movie • 1927
Baseball Player (as Big Boy Williams)
Arizona Bound
Movie • 1927
Cowboy
Lightning
Movie • 1927
Cuth Stewart
Cheyenne
TV • 1955
Prairie Dog
Gunsmoke
TV • 1955
Groat
The Restless Gun
TV • 1957
Jeff Bonsell
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV • 1951
Tulsa Jack
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Moose McKlintock
Circus Boy
TV • 1956
My Friend Flicka
TV • 1955
Jeb Taylor
The Life Of Riley
TV • 1953
Finnegan
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Buffalo
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Calvin Bryngelson
Tales of Wells Fargo
TV • 1957
Mike Forbes
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV • 1954
Sgt. Muldoon
U.S. Marshall
TV • 1956
Jones